Critics of nation-state law 'mistaken and misinformed,' Netanyahu advisor says

An Arab rights group in Israel has filed a petition with the Supreme Court against the country's new and controversial Jewish state law.

"The petition was submitted on behalf of the Arab political leadership in Israel", the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, also known as Adalah, said in a statement.

The "nation state law", which has near-constitutional power as part of the series of Basic Laws that inform and direct Israel's legislative and judicial branches, was passed by a 62-55 margin earlier this month, enshrining Israel as the historic homeland of the Jewish people and stating Jews have a "unique" right to self-determination within its borders.

"The accusations about the new law's effects on Israeli democracy have no connection to the actual content or context of the law", Sara Greenberg wrote in an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post.

The Basic Laws of Israel are the constitutional laws that can only be changed by a super-majority vote in the Israeli Knesset, hence the constitutional underpinning of the Israeli justice system.

The petition says that the law is "racist, massively harmful to fundamental human rights and contravenes global human rights norms, especially those forbidding laws that constitute a racist constitution". It has prompted particular outrage from Israel's Druze minority, whose members say the law's provisions render them second-class citizens.

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